Maidanek : PT3
Maidanek : PT3
Maidanek (Majdanek) : PT3 - Documentary film made just after the liberation of this giant Nazi death camp by Red Army troops on July 23, 1944 ; possibly a Soviet and/or Polish production, but titles and narration are in German language.
Maidanek : PT3
Var shots of the Majdanek crematorium; a group of people are looking as a few others point out things. LS chimney. MS pan on ovens; then pan down to show bones on ground. Group examining cremation facilities. VO says it was capable of burning 1920 corpses in 24 hours. MS pan on human bones on ground.
Maidanek : PT3
DO NOT USE: CU several photographs of children that had belonged to the victims.
Maidanek : PT3
More shots of furnaces, bone fragments in them, a box full of bone fragments. (to be ground up and used for fertilizer). CUs Polish civilian women who are touring the camp crying. LS crematorium chimney. MS sign for the firm who built it- -L. Rechkemmer. LS crematorium chimney.
Maidanek : PT3
Various shots of skeletal remains, piles of ashes and bone, etc, CU the bone being used on a farm field.
Maidanek : PT3
Investigators enter a warehouse in which is stored the possessions of the victims. Various CUs of shoes. Large pile of shoes, 20,000 pair, according to the narrator.
Maidanek : PT3
GV area of warehouse with piles of clothes on shelves. CU pan on a collection of gloves. CUs of toys and dolls. CU pile of eyeglasses. MS case full of scissors.
Maidanek : PT3
MS Rottenfuehrer SS Vogel testifies about the clothing procedures; the clothes were all sorted and the best stuff was shipped back to Germany. In the first half of 1944 he had shipped back 18 train car loads of clothes, shoes etc.
Maidanek : PT3
CU passports of the murdered victims, from many different nations, laid out on a table. Still closer shots of some of them, close enough that one can.
Maidanek : PT3
MCUs of individual prisoners speaking - - a Frenchman, a Dutchman and a Czech, still in their striped uniforms, and standing in the camp area; other prisoners and soldiers in BG; these men also gave evidence about atrocities to the 'Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in Lublin.' MSs of the commission meeting. LS pan with a group of c. 7 men walking along path behind barbed wire fence; not certain if they are former POWs or if they are current (German) prisoners.